#farmer

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budget #drought #ever #faced #farmers

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#built #children #farmers #gen #hired

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#few #fighting #keep #long #out

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#farmers #get #here #out #quitting

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity. ↗

— David Ricardo

#compensated #exchangeable #exchangeable value #farmer #great

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. ↗

— Will Rogers

#optimist #still

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #democratic #ever

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. ↗

— David F. Houston

#duty #farmer #food #his #increase

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#called #coffee #disparity #ethiopia #farmer

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences